Re: Partitions whith length % 4096 != 0

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:03:07PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> >(3) use 2.6.x.
> One day I'll do that :)
> But anyway we need a way to create hfs / hfs+ / hfsx file
> systems under Linux, and it would be good to be able to do
> that under 2.4 versions.

Another idea:

You could just write to /dev/hda rather than /dev/hdaN.  You can
get the relevant numbers out of /proc/partitions... it's all doable
in a shell script (with dd...)

Cheers,
Andrew